When you walk into any bookstore and peruse the relationship section, you will find hundreds of books on how to have a better relationship. You may start flipping through a few – perhaps enticed by their cover or, in response to-the latest “expert” that was featured...

As a couple’s therapist, I often have people ask me if they should come individually or with their partner. Here is my response to that question: If your purpose is to work on your relationship, then it is better to come together (an exception is when there is...

Ever since the Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson 2007 movie, “The Bucket List”, there seems to have been an increased awareness of the importance of life’s major “to-do” list. This movie depicts the last months of two terminally ill men who flee from a cancer ward...

We’ve all been there. The urgent, no-addictive, need to check the phone when alerted to a text, tweet, email, or incoming phone call. It rings or vibrates, we are trained to respond. The problem is that now our phones are with us – usually AT ALL TIMES. It’s...

You’ve heard the old adage – never walk away from a fight. Or, never do to bed angry. Both of these imply that if you are in a relationship and having a disagreement, you both must pound the dead horse of a fight to it’s very messy and exhausting death. I am here to...